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"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid."
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"You need to assess yourself on a yearly basis and see how far you have gone and what you still need to work on."
"When does the external work improve? It improves when inner peace is attained."
"The perfect is the enemy of the good."
"Resolutions are popular because everyone feels they could use a little improvement."
"With experience comes improvement."
"When it comes to perfection, the most that we could possibly do is to continuously push closer and closer to it. It is truly something to aim at, just to see how close you could get to it."
"But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from "best."
"Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time."
"One key quality of all global achievers is that, they keep improving day after day. They set standards that they keep surpassing year after year."
"Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better."
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"What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others. You shun slavery- beware enslaving others! If you can endure to do that, one would think you had been once upon a time a slave yourself. For vice has nothing in common with virtue, nor Freedom with slavery."
"You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at various prices. This is why, when Florus was deliberating whether he should appear at Nero's shows, taking part in the performance himself, Agrippinus replied, 'Appear by all means.' And when Florus inquired, 'But why do not you appear?' he answered, 'Because I do not even consider the question.' For the man who has once stooped to consider such questions, and to reckon up the value of external things, is not far from forgetting what manner of man he is."
"You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself."
"Man, what are you talking about? Me in chains? You may fetter my leg but my will, not even Zeus himself can overpower."
"If you wish to live a life free from sorrow think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened."
"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."
"Philosophy does not claim to secure for us anything outside our control. Otherwise it would be taking on matters that do not concern it. For as wood is the material of the carpenter, and marble that of the sculptor, so the subject matter of the art of life is the life of the self."
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